This study examines the extent to which severely mentally disabled (SMD) patients in one county mental health system were incarcerated in the local jail and examines characteristics of a sample (N = 30) of such individuals. We found that in the study…
BACKGROUND. There is a national trend to deinstitutionalize mentally retarded adults, placing them in community residential settings. As a result, community-based primary care physicians will assume responsibility for their medical care. Primary care…
The legal concept of the right of psychiatric patients to treatment in the least restrictive alternative has come to mean treatment anywhere but in the state hospital, as illustrated in two large communities in Ohio and Massachusetts. Oversimplified…